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The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-05

amined, however, are white men who
were in prison for homicides and
who stood we'll before their crimes
and are considered reputable men
now. However, each of these men
seemed much embittered against con-
ditions of which they were formerly
part. There is little doubt that
the main stories told possess a basis
of truth, some may be wholly true,
but the inclination of the witnesses
to exaggerate should be borne in
mind before reaching conclusions.
Zeal of Former Wardens.
A zeal to expose has been shown
| by most of the former guards and
wardens, who have been examined.
Those who did not display feelings
of pique told stories far less sensa-
tional than the others. 1t seemed
the desire of nearly all the witnesses
examined up to date to tell the
truth, but only two or three showed
no prejudice. One of these, a form
er attache of the state farm, who
displayed no zeal for or against his
former employers, spoke highly of
general conditions as he had known
them.
There is no doubt of Irregular
ties having existed, but whether
these were of such import as the
main witnesses have tried to give
is seriously doubted Nothing so far
developed incriminates any member
of the prison commission. It's agents
have in the main been involved in
the accusations brought. The friends
of the commission declare the irreg-
ularities testified to are, even if
wholly true, mere exceptional cases
of abuse that will occur in any sys-
TEN.
1t has been COnclusively developed
that agents of the commission have
been making money off the persons
they were employed to watch, and
it has also been shown that the COM
mission must have known of this.
The board will, perhaps, explain this
condition of affairs on the ground
that such money as was made from
lessees3 by guards and wardens was
for extra work performed which
they, the board, felt disinclined to
forbid on account that these largess-
es were not necessarily brides, and
that men susceptible to such in
fiuence could have been reached in
ways far less open and likely to be
discovered
No one knows how the claim that
prisoners were taken away from the
state and worked as day laborers for
private parties in direct competition
with free labor will be explained
1t is claimed that in sending
squads of men away from the farm
the law was directly violated 1t is
recalled that resolution to permit
prisoners to clean up the grounds of
the Georgia Normal and Industrial
College at Milledgeville, the same
being the property of the state, was
gotten through the legislature with
much difficulty for the reasons that
condemned outside employment for
them.
Possible Indictments for Cruelty.
If the charges of cruelty made
against several wardens and lessees
are sustained there will probably be
indictments. There is also a posi-
bility of several murder trials de-
veloping from the present investiga-
ton, as witnesses have sworn that
cOnvicts have been beaten to death.
1t is also possible that a good many
lease contracts will be vacated and
steps taken to impose penalties on
the guilty lessees. The contracts
will expire April l, 1909.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-05
Georgia's Agricultural Schools.

From the cambridge Search Light.
If we are any Judge of the matter
Georgia's agricultural brand of edu.
cation is coming mighty high. With
an agricultural college IN each con-
gressional district clamoring for sup
port, and with the university at Ath-
ems asking for $4,000 to pay the
running expenses of the agricultural
school established there at a cost of
100000, the same to pay the run
ming expenses for the past year. we
are beginning to wonder where this
raid on the state treasury is going to
end.
AS we have before stated, there
are a great many crimes committed
these days in the name of the farmer.
These agricultural schools were es-
tablished in each congressional dis
tict as feeders to the university. but
at the present rate it is easy to see
that either the college or the com
mon school is going to suffer.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-05
FOR WOLVES $4,000 A QUARTER
Minnesota Finds War on Varmints
Is Very Costly.

Wolf bounties amounting to S13,-
$3.50 have been paid by the state
auditor to the different counties of
Minnesota. This represents differ
ent hounties paid by the counties on
1857 full-grown wolves and 1857
cubs. The largest single payment
was to Marshall county, which drew
$l,537.5O for bounties paid on PA
wolves, which is the largest amount
paid to any one county in years.
The last payment of wolf bounties
by the state auditor was in March.
and these warrants represent claims
that have come in since that time.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-05
STRONG DRINK NOT WORSE
THAN POOR COOKING THE DE-
CISION AT GRANGE MEETING.
Inc Women Defended the Kitchen,
But the Men Were Silent on the
Side of Whiskey.


But the Men Were Silent on the
Side of Whiskey.
After discussing the subject in it's
varied forms and from sundry view
points the Gloucester county. New
Jersey, Pomona Grange has finally
decided that strong drink is not
worse curse to mankind than poor
cooking.
The majority was large, but some
of the women who participated very
frankly declared that the odds were
often against the cook.
The first speaker was Mrs. VIII
H. Hoffman of Mickleton, who said
that strong drink was not only the
greater curse. but the greatest curse
in the world to man. She said it
robs him of his manhood and respect
for his family, and while the women
are blamed for the poor cooking the
men have the power within them
selves to correct the drink habit if
they will not use it.
Poor cooking is bad enough. but
strong drink is worse" she said. Il
pity the woman who has to live with
man given to strong drink, but |
also pity man who is married to
a woman who gives him soggy pota-
toes, muddy coffee, burned meat,
sour bread and heavy cake. I took
dinner with a friend in PennsyIva-
MIA once, after a friend had come
home from there on a visit, pale and
thin. There was the very same food
on that table that I have at home,
and | didn't wonder that Bessie came
home i'll. One item was pumpkin
pie. 1t looked fine, but oh! the taste.
| can imagine it now. The woman
was widow with a nervous daugh-
ter. | didn't wonder"
Mrs. Caddie Gill Endorsed all that
Mrs. Hoffman said, and wished that
all who were in doubt on the cues
ton would look at some of the coun-
try hotels in the evenings, the num-
Der that were drunk, then canvass
the towns to see how many had in
digestion
Mr. Gardiner and several others
who were expected to speak on the
other side for the sake of argument
did not have the courage to open
the battle with whisky talk.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-05
FACTS ABOUT TEETH.
Common Garden Snail the Happy
POssessOr of 14,175 in All.

POsseSsOr of 14,175 in All.
Most people imagine that teeth are
bones, but this is not so in any way.
Though they are attached to the
skeleton they are not a part of it.
AS rule they are made up of three
substances-dentine, cement and en-
amel and there develop from the
dermis or skin.
Enamel is the hardest of all ami
NAL substances. 1t actually contains
more than SO parts in 100 of min
eral matter-mainly phosphate of
lime-while bone contains only 60
per cent. This accounts for the fact,
that teeth are more indestructible
than any other part of the animal
frame.
What is more wonderful still is
that the tooth is the keynote of the
frame. An expert anatomist needs
only to eb shown a tooth or two in
order to reconstruct from them the
animal from whose jaws they Origi-
nally came-and this although the
animal itself has been dead 10000
600 years, and its kind extinct for
almost as long
Not only do the teeth show what
their owner looked like, whether it
was animal, lizard, fish or bird
some extinct birds used to possess
teeth-but a study of set of these
useful organs will show what the
creature used to feed on, and. in
ctdentally tell a great deal about its
life and habits.
Teeth vary in form and number
more than any other animal organs.
An elephant, for instance, has US
ually only four teeth in use besides
his tusks. But they are big enough
to make up in size what they lack in
number. The teeth of the elephant
tribe are so different from those of
other animals that when a fossil is
dug up the geolOgist can at once be
certain to what race of creatures it
/ belonged and is able to reconstruct
the gigantic mastodon, or hairy
mammoth, III whose jaw it originally
grew.
At the other end of the scale III
point of number of teeth. comes The
snail. The common garden snail is
the happy possessOr of 1876 rows each
of 1865 teeth, or a matter of 14175
teeth in ALL
The teeth of the fish vary more
greatly than those of any other
known creatures. Their teeth are
not divided into incisors, CANNES and
molars, as in animals, but almost
every kind of fish has differently
shaped teeth. Sharks, for instance
have several rows of teeth, all ex-
tremely sharp pointed. The front
row stands up erect, but those ne
hind are more or less recumbent
There is never any difficulty in iden-
tifying a sharks tooth.
Most fish have a great number CT
/ teeth. The dolphin, for instance.
possesses 200, but there are others
like the turgeon-which have no
teeth at all. Almost all fish-sbarks
especially-shed their teeth frequent
ly, and grow new ones to replace
them.
Snakes teeth-the poison fangs
that is-haye the same peculiarly
There are always fresh ones in re-
serve to take the place of those
which get broken. A rattlesnal,o
may have as many as 10 of these
reserve teeth. Snakes fanps arc
very sharp, very elastic, and CON
trary to common belief, never boI-
low, but provided with a groove
along which the poison flies.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-08-05

There are many limitations of De
Wits Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve.
but just one original. Nothing else
Is just as good. Insist on DeWitt's.
1t is cleansing. cooling and sootb-
ing. Sold by Dawson Drug Co.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-01-10
RIGHT YOU ARE.

DIR. BlaIock, returning from his Wis
it to Chelan last week, stopped in
Wenatchee and addressed the COM
merciaI club and business men of
that town on the open river PROPOSE
ton. He not only succeeded i'm
arousing enthusiastic interest on the
part of the county seaters i'm the
great project which he is advocating,
but also tickled their vanity inn
mensely by predicting, i'm the course
of his address, that within twenty
years Wenatchee will embrace a pop
ulatiOn of not less than 100000 peO-
pie. Every one i'm this section of the
Columbia valley will heartily wish
that the Doctors prediction may
prove true; for such prosperity and
growth for Wenatchee must mean q
propOrtionate growth and prosperity
for all this part of the river country.
-Chelan Leader.
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-01-10

of merchants who were considering
the proposed parcels post bill. They
were carried away in their fervor
to denounce parcels post, rural free
delivery, etc. Finally, one suggest
ed that rural carriers should be al
lowed to carry only letters, but no
other mail Think Of it. Sedate
business men getting scared OF the
bogie called the mail order house >.
Finally, one sensible man got up and
told them they acted like children.
You can't stop rural routes" he
said; neither can you eliminate the
carrying OF package by mail. The
best thing you can do is to abandon
your obsolete ways of carrying on
your business, and start a mail or
der house of your own. You can
then fight them on their own field,
and with parceIs post you can win
in every fight"
Anyone who has studied the his
tory of this country carefully, and
knows anything of the economic
changes taking place, can not fail to
see that the cutthroat competition of
ZIG pdoI SifC way DClOlO Sy
tematized> consolidation. That is
what the big mail order house typi-
fies. But why deny ourselves the
advantage of parcels post in doubt
full effort to starve out the mail Or
der houses?
The mail order houses are -four
ishing, and will continue to do SO
Their growth is not due to especially
favorable legislation, but to theil
better economic management. Leg.
islatures have tried to kill them, but
have been unable to do so without
injuring every storekeeper.
The mail order house is not being
hurt by the present rates, and hall
what is being told by the express
trust to excite the people about the
efforts of the mail order houses tc
get a parcels post law is all dust in
the eyes of the public to blind them
to the moves of our distinguished
Continued on Page 81
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A Red Hot Communication in Favor
of the Proposed Addition 90
Postal Service.
Editor World:

Editor World:
Those who have Dean reading IN
the magazines the wonderful manner
in which she press of the country has
been subsidized in the interests Of
wireless telegraph schemes, the tel
eph0le trust. the Standard Oil trust,
the meat trust, and other similar af-
fairs. can easily see the golden
hand" Of the express companies in
the little news items that are filing
the papers of the present-especially
the rural papers.
In some cases the golden touch"
has subsidized only the leading pa
pers of the state, and the little pa
pers are pleased to clip from these
rather than to do their own think
ing.
Shall we have parcels post? Yes,
and right away. If there are good
things to be had in this line, why
should the American public be held
up by the express companies as they
have been. And, furthermore, let
us have it without any apron-strings.
Why say, give it to the people of
tHC LOWAS, lnCs Sdu uSC IL OH iiShI,
but don't let the country people have
it-except in a restricted way-for
they would send away to the depart
ment stores for their goods. Stuff
and nonsense.
All this rampage against the mail
order houses is simply to hoodoo the
| local storekeepers into fighting the
| battle for the express trust. If it
were known that the express trust
were at the helm then Congress
would hesitate to favor them. But
with very innocent petitions coming
from the storekeepers of the towns
the members of congress ind it easy
to say, my people are against par
GELS post.
About three years ago l had the
pleasure of attending convention
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The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1908-01-10
TINGLES

SAYS: I'm going to take Johnny to his aunts
ME o Parshalls buy him pants
Vs / Parshalls a look
ALA three pair quickly took.
may re a farmer, but I'm green;
Wenatchee
When heard of the bargains the HALF PRICE SALE
She hat an
FLORENCE Wenachee, Washington.
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ESTRAYED.
ODE Public Forum

This Open letters subject of
published Air ideas unsigned
desired writer's will
editor will
opinions of correspondents.
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steamer leaves Wenatchee for
bridgeport Monday, Wednesday and
,rrioay mornings. Returning leaves
Bridgeport same night.
ASK for special folders regarding
UKanogan irrigation project and
Lake Chelan district.
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Columbia and Okanogan
Steamboat Co,
SCHEDULE
Eniecfive on and After Nov. 1. 1900,
SCHEDULE

UP RIVER
Leave Wenatchee daily $500 am.
Orondo daily. $500 a. M,
Entiat daily $3.50 a. m.
Chefan Falls daily 1890 m.
Pateros daily. $500 D. m.
arrive Brewster daily. $500 o. m.
DOWN RIVER
Leave brewster daily 400 a. m.
Pateros daily. -. APO a. IN.
Chelan Falls daily. $3.50 a. N.
Entiat daily. $3.50 a. m.
Orondo daily. -. 1000 a. m.
Arrive Wenatchee daily. 1890 m.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07

Now VIC are assured that the once famed Merry Widow hat is to be made to look like the proverbial thirty cents by the advent of the newest Parisian creation called the Fluffy Ruffies hat. "Its brim." says an alleged authority. ''is just as wide If not wider than that of the once famed Merry Widow. but it is a brim of the billowy. wavy sort. But that's not all by any man. ner of means. The piece de resistance in the way of trimming is spray of long curly feathers which sticks out out horizontally from beneath the left side of the brim to distance beyond 1t of several feet. This hat may be properly set down as a real millinery monstrosity and is described as having the effect of looking like big canti- lever crane reaching out for something. In passing it may be we'll to note that one of these hats cost s4o0 in Paris and with the American duty on such things its cost in this country was ss4o.r
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07

suggests that Roosevelt also take to the woods and leave the befuddIed cadet matter to settle itself or be set tied by somebody else. To tell the plain truth there are three men in prominent positions who need vaca- tions. Either one or more of them perhaps all--have been playing tricks on the truth or else they are gifted with monumental faculties for mis- understanding and forgetting. Any one who has kept track of the trou- bie growing out of the dismissal of the eight cadets must feel bound to admit one of two things: either Roose- welt. Wright and Loeb have nisunder- stood each other all through the dis cussion. which would indicate singu- lar dullness on their part: or else Roosevelt on one side or Wright and Loeb on the other side have deliber- ately prevaricated. There Is no get ting around one or the other of these conclusions for the statements made by the parties are so variant that there must have been singular stupid ity or shameless disregard for truth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07
A REAL DILEMMA.

To our way of thinking. Judge Taft Is skating on very thin ice these days. and all on account of the Roose- welt policies. There is. as Is well known. a strong sentiment in the Re- publican ranks against any more Rooseveltism in the government. and those who entertain these sentiments are insistent in claiming that Taft as President, shall refuse to carry out the Roosevelt program. and they want him to pledge himself in advance that he will not do 50. On the other hand are the unalloyed Roostvelters who want Taft to pledge himself now that if he is elected he will continue the Roosevelt policies during his term of office. So he finds himself in the con- dition of the Mustered lover in "The Beggar's Opera" who exclaimed:
 How happy could I be with either
 Were t'other dear charmer awayl
 Perhaps. too. he feels inclined to say in the words of dying Mercutio, "A plague of both your housesr" He finds himself in an embarrassing dilemma. If he pledges himself to one side he may cool the enthusiasm of the other. If he refuses to make any pledge at all he will offend both wings, and if he pledges himself both ways he will be found out and discredited in the end. Some argue that he might follow the example of Roosevelt. who pledged himself to carry out the poli- cies of Mckinley and then turned his back on them. but we regard Taft as in every way a more reliable man than Roosevelt. and that is why the situa- tion is both delicate and embarrassing.
 The proper thing for him to do Is to come out in plain terms and say that if he becomes President he will pur- sue the course which he considers best for the whole country and all the people. whether by so doing he follows or discards Roosevelt's policies. By that course he might sour some of the demagogues, but he would bind to him the best clements of his party. Of course we are not caring how many of his party leaders he offends. or how much hurt it may do him. but at the same time we must feel sym | pathy for a man who is trying to bal ance himself on a tottering top rail. which is likely to break under his ponderosity or tumble him of and dis rupt his anatomy.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07
NOTICE

It is hereby ordered by The Board of Rev enue of Montg gomery County that con vention of the various superintendents and Overseers of Public Roads in the County of Montgomery. be and the same is hereby called to meet at LeGrand in this County on the 18th day of August, 1908 for the purpose of discussing the best methods Of constructing and working public reads and obtaining the henefit of such information as can be gained from such persons who have had experience in road construction or have made a study of the same. may be fn- duced to appear before said convention and make practical addresses or talks upon said matters.
 The Clerk of this Board is instructed to notify each superintendent of road ip this County of this order and to request them to be present on said occasion. The County Engineer and the President of this Board are hereby requested to undertake to secure such persons as they may fin their judgment think best calculated to give practical advice on the subject of road building. to make talks or addresses before said convention on said date. All persona interested in the subject of good roads are cordially invited to be present and take part In said meeting whether they are con- nected with the public road service of this County or not. tu-fri
The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-07
aoALL ME pILL.s
Tt Was a Marvellous Appeal For
 Votes.

It waa a Marvellous Appeal For
 Votes.
 Philadelphia Record.
 There can no longer be any ques- tion about the election of the Repub- lican candidate for the Presidency. He has struck the tenderest chord in the popular heart. He has swept his hand across the strings of human senti- ment and evoked therefrom soft, vii brating. thrilling notes. Cali me Bill" he says to the newspaper corps at Hot Springs.
 Who can resist the invitation to call him Bill. or, accepting 1t. fail to vote like an appeal from the Old Home stead. It is almost as good as a play by dear old Denman Thompson It carries one back in the imagina- and the orchard that didn't belong to dad, and to all the "fellers." The poet sighs in vain for Father Time to back pedal and make him 2 child again just date says Gall me Bill" and we are all boys again.
 And then, too. 1t Is such Republican simplicity Thomas +h sete1sOn sedt may itol Hill tied his horse to a fence post and walked up to the spot of inaugu- ration-or he may not. But 1t is not recorded that he ever murmured to  Calliope, The Peoples Palladium and The Daily Destroyer of Despots, Gall me Tom" No; sympathetic as he was to the French revo1utionists, he never reached that point of liberty frater- nity and equalization.
 The correspondents were not agreed whether to address the distinguished guest of the Hot Springs as Secretary or Judge, or Candidate. or Next Pres ident. and the good man who weighs POT 1-2 pounds and does not even take his smile off at night made them perfectly easy by inviting them to call him Mir. Taft when tremendously dis posed. or in moments of campaign in timacy to Gall me Bill" Nothing stuck up about him. No officialism No red tape. No ceremony. Just man of the people. with name that all people can remember. But If Mir Bryan had said, Call me Bill" what shivers would have jarred the frames of the New York and Boston news papersl It would have been revolting demagoguery on his part. But it only proves Mr Taft to be a simple. warm hearted man of the people Gall me Bill-and don't forget to vote for rna